Re: 2.6.23-rc1: BUG_ON in kmap_atomic_prot()

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> buffered_rmqueue() and prep_new_page() are static functions with only 
> one caller each, and for the normal non-debug case it's a really nice 
> optimization to have them inlined automatically.

I'm not at all sure I agree.

Inlining big functions doesn't actually tend to generally generate any 
better code, so if gcc's logic is "single callsite - always inline", then 
that logic is likely not right.

		Linus
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